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In the Land of Ninkasi
by Tate Paulette; read by Ryan Lee Dunlap
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A feast for beer geeks and history buffs alike, In the Land of Ninkasi tells the story of the world's first great beer culture. Learn More
In the Houses of Their Dead
by Terry Alford; read by Danny Campbell
The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. Learn More
In the Dark of War
by Sarah M. Carlson; read by Teri Schnaubelt
A CIA officer's inside account of how Libya's descent into rampant violence precipitated the harrowing overland evacuation of the entire US mission from Tripoli after being trapped in the city for weeks. Learn More
In Search of Sir Thomas Browne
Hugh Aldersey-Williams; read by Simon Vance
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Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone form Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. Learn More
In Search of a Beautiful Freedom
by Farah Jasmine Griffin; read by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Lively, insightful writings on Black music, feminism, literature, and events from a "masterful critic and master teacher" (Walton Muyumba, Boston Globe). Learn More
In Europe's Shadow
Robert D. Kaplan; read by Paul Boehmer
Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and Romania was a Communist backwater where "history had virtually stopped" since World War II. Learn More
The Improbable Wendell Willkie
by David Levering Lewis; read by Mike Chamberlain
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner comes this surprising portrait of Wendell Willkie, the businessman–turned–presidential candidate who (almost) saved America’s dysfunctional political system. Learn More
Impossible Owls
by Brian Phillips; read by Steve Menasche
In his highly anticipated debut essay collection, Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he's one of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, beloved for his ambitious, off-kilter, meticulously reported essays that read like novels. Learn More
Impossible Monsters
by Michael Taylor; read by Michael Langan
"Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary" (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, must-listen narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age. Learn More
Imagination
by Ruha Benjamin; read by Janina Edwards
In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future. Learn More
Illuminating History
by Bernard Bailyn; read by Tom Parks
The brilliance of a master historian shines through this personal account of a lifetime's work. Learn More
Illiberal America
by Steven Hahn; read by Mitch Crawford
If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals. Learn More
Ill Fares the Land
Tony Judt; read by James Adams
A Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award Winner
British historian Tony Judt writes a passionate, wise letter about what is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. He shows how to apply the past to the future, challenging us to confront our societal ills and to shoulder responsibility for the world we live in. Learn More
The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution
by D.H. Robinson; read by Liam Gerrard
In The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution, Dan Robinson presents a new history of politics in colonial America and the imperial crisis, tracing how ideas of Europe and Europeanness shaped British-American political culture. Learn More
Ice War Diplomat
by Gary Smith; read by Kyle Tait
Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the historic Summit Series, here is the incredible story of an unlikely political stage—the hockey rink—where a Cold War, and the threat of nuclear annihilation, is no less important than a power play in the final minute. Discover a diplomacy mission like no other: caught between capitalism and communism, Canada and the Soviet Union, young Canadian diplomat Gary J. Smith must navigate the rink, melting the ice between two nations skating a dangerous path. Learn More
Iago
by Harold Bloom; read by Simon Vance
From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello's Iago, perhaps the Bard's most compelling villain—the fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwright’s most significant personalities. Learn More
I Dream with Open Eyes
by George Prochnik; read by Malcolm Hillgartner
A journey of reckoning and renewal, this story of family history and future dreams is an examination of the individual imagination as a catalyst for social change. Learn More
I Am the Law
by Michael Molcher; read by Keval Shah
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the comic strip Judge Dredd, published in 2000 AD, has predicted the changing face of policing in Britain over the last forty-five years. Learn More
Humans versus Nature
by Daniel R. Headrick; read by David Stifel
Humans versus Nature tells a history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relationship between the human and natural worlds. Learn More
Hubris
by Jonathan Haslam; read by Jonathan Haslam
A leading expert on US-Russian relations reveals how the United States and its European allies set the course for the war in Ukraine—and offers a sobering indictment of American foreign policy since the fall of the Soviet Union. Learn More
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